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Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and rebels abuse of detainees
Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and rebels abuse of detainees Libya, Politics, 8/26/2011 Amnesty International reported yesterday that it has gathered powerful testimonies from survivors of abuse at the hands of both pro-Gadhafi soldiers and rebel forces, in and around the town of Az-Zawiya. Amnesty International met on Tuesday with "officials at Bir Tirfas School which is now being used to ...
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El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state
El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian officials. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the president of El Salvador for the recognition, expressing hope that it will bolster bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki had ...
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Syrian cartoonist beaten savagely
Syrian cartoonist beaten savagely Syria, Politics, 8/26/2011 Reporters Without Borders reported that the famous cartoonist Ali Ferzat's torture while abducted for several hours today in Damascus and the woman journalist Hanadi Zahlout's torture while in detention are typical of the way the regime treats those who challenge its propaganda and express views different from its own. ...
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US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time
US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns led the U.S. delegation to the August 25 Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where representatives from 28 countries, the UN, EU, NATO, AU, OIC, Arab League and GCC came together to demonstrate the international community's firm commitment to ...
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Hot weather and fast does not keep Iranians from Quds Day established by imam Khomeini
Hot weather and fast does not keep Iranians from Quds Day established by imam Khomeini Palestine-Iran, Politics, 8/26/2011 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today Zionist regime's existence "is not merely a threat to the Palestinian and the entire regional nations, rather its establishment and continued survival contrast interests, independence and dignity of all ...
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Gandhian protest is more relevant in Palestine Shaath
Gandhian protest is 'more relevant' in Palestine: Shaath Palestine-India, Politics, 8/26/2011 Terming the Gandhian way of protest as "more relevant" in Palestine, its ambassador Nabeel Shaath yesterday said Mahatma Gandhi has inspired the new generation in his homeland to carry out their struggle in a non-violent way. IRNA reported him saying the "Gandhian formula ...
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China Announces Its Full Support of Palestinian Move Date 2482011 Time 2334
China Announces Its Full Support of Palestinian Move Date : 24/8/2011 Time : 23:34 Palestine-China, Politics, 8/26/2011 The Chinese Middle East envoy to the peace process, Wu Sike, transferred on Wednesday a message from the Chinese leadership confirming China's full support for the Palestinian UN bid in a meeting with Presidential General Secretary, Tayyeb Abdul Rahim, in the ...
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U.N. Security Council to unfreeze Libyan assets
U.N. Security Council to unfreeze Libyan assets Libya-UN, Politics, 8/26/2011 The United Nations and its diplomatic partners seeking a resolution to the Libyan crisis yesteday urged the U.N. Security Council to release assets frozen under United Nations sanctions to the country's transitional authorities to help them set up a government in the North African nation. "We have ...
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Five palestinians killed 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
Five palestinians killed, 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Five Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured at dawn yesterday in two Israeli air strikes targeting a sports club in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza, and a tunnel in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Israeli F16 warplanes bombed the sports club, located in a ...
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US focus on directing money to new Libyan leaders
US focus on directing money to new Libyan leaders Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 Victoria Nuland, Spokesperson for the US Department Of State met with reporters yesterday about the latest developments. Here is what she said: Nuland: Afternoon, everybody. Sorry to be a little bit late today. You will recently have seen the statement that we put out about the participation of Deputy ...
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Ahmadinejad Iran backs restoration of security in Iraq
Ahmadinejad: Iran backs restoration of security in Iraq Iraq-Iran, Politics, 8/26/2011 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that the Iran fully backs restoration of security and progress in Iraq, in a meeting with visiting Iraqi deputy chairman of Iraqi Kurdistan administration Nechirvan Barzani. IRNA reported saying "Given historical and cultural affinities ...
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Reporters Without Borders condemns mistreatment of Palestinian journalists
Reporters Without Borders condemns mistreatment of Palestinian journalists Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Reporters Without Borders reported Tuesday about what it described as "the complete failure to punish abusive treatment of Palestinian journalists by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank." It said in a statement that Israel carried out "many arbitrary ...
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MEMRI Fatah Marks 65th Nakba Day We Cling To The Refugees Right To Return To Their Homes In The 1948 Territories
MEMRI Special Dispatch |5302|May 17, 2013 Fatah Marks 65th Nakba Day: We Cling To The Refugees' Right To Return To Their Homes In The 1948 Territories For the 65th Nakba Day, Fatah and its spokesmen underlined their continued adherence to the Palestinian refugees' right of return to their homes in all of the 1948 territory, and noted that that this sacred right is passed down ...
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ExcerptsAssad has no plans to resign. Arab League peace plan 18 May 2013
Excerpts:Assad has no plans to resign. Arab League peace plan 18 May 2013 +++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 18 ...
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President Peres held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle
President Peres held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle President Shimon Peres, this afternoon (Friday, 17 May 2013), at his Jerusalem residence, held a diplomatic working meeting with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle. Two discussed the major issues of the day, first and foremost the Iranian nuclear threat and efforts to renew ...
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Groups insist on symmetry to asymmetric situation - US Visa Waiver for Israelis should be Reciprocal
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Pop question: are there any characteristics that would enable one to identify subgroups of Israelis wanting to visit the United States who believe that the United States of America does not have a right to exist and wants to visit the United States to aid and abet people and groups inside the United States acting against the existence of the United States? No. ...
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Only 1500 protest against budget across country
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: If YNET - the new organization that makes every effort to promote the social protests against the government - can only manage to come up with a figure of "some 1,500 people gathered in various protests across Israel" then the real story here is that this protest movement is a dud so far. The question for reporters should be "why"? 1,500 protest ...
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‘Time needed for Syria to master the S-300’
Syria would require a considerable period of time before it could master the S-300 air defense system, a defense analyst said Friday.The comments came soon after Russia said it remains committed to an arms deal with Syria to deliver the advanced ...
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Omans Sharqiyah Desalination launches IPO
Oman's first independent water project (IWP), Sharqiyah Desalination Co (SDC) has floated an initial public offering (IPO) of 2.282 million shares, Times of Oman has reported. SDC has a paid-up capital of OR6.52m, said Xavier Joseph, CEO of the company. The shares will be available only to the individual investors and will close on June ...
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Omans Al Suwadi Al Batinah Power planning IPOs by mid-2014
Oman's Al Suwadi Power Co and Al Batinah Power Co are likely to launch their initial public offerings (IPOs) by mid-2014, Muscat Daily has reported. "There will be two IPOs, each offering 35% of shares. Currently we are reviewing the exact timing for the IPO and in a few months we will be sitting down to formulate the plans," the CEO of Al Suwadi Power, Bernard Esselinckx, told ...
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Qatar Holding acquires 40 of Italys Porta Nuova
Qatar Holding has agreed to buy a 40% stake in Milan's real estate development project Porta Nuova for an undisclosed sum, Reuters has reported. Qatar Holding will subscribe to newly issued shares with the remaining 60% staying in the hands of the current sponsors of the project, Porta Nouva developer, Hines Italia SGR, and Qatar Holding ...
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Assad insists he will not quit car bomb hits Damascus
Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people. "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know ...
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Syria has no reason to use chemical weapons
World View: After the fiasco over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas ...
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Syrias Assad Little Chance Peace Talks Would Succeed-Newspaper
LIMA -- Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on ...
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Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike
Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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